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[ashtree]

Hey, Jackie! That's one of my favorite crosses also, I've got a couple here. It was Muesky who had been working on that cross but I don't think she's gotten anywhere yet.
I'll see if I have any pictures here on my iPad of the ones I have. I've got like 8 Blue LF Ameraucana cockerels (not EE's), they're 6 wks old now. I've hung onto my huge Gold Laced Cochin boy because it's always in the back of my head that I'd like to breed him to one of my Blue Ameraucanas next year. That's be the prettiest Blue and red and black colors.
These 1st 2 are 3/4 Ameraucana and 1/4 Cochin. They look like hefty Ameraucanas.

This boy is the daddy of the above 2, he's 1/2 Cochin and 1/2 Ameraucana.

This is my Bantam Ameraucana boy, tame like a puppy. I do have 6 wk old cockerels out of him also.

The Gold laced Cochin boy is in the background of this picture, wouldn't he make pretty babies?? lol The one in the foreground is an Orloff/Cuckoo Marans mix who's awesome sweet.

Here's a close up of the Orloff/Marans boy in the previous picture. I'm so in awe of how tame he is, he waits for me to sit down when I'm working on something in the yard so he can come sit on my lap. I love him so much.

But let me put in a plug for Faverolles mixes!! Favs make the prettiest mixes of all :-D I have 2 of these boys, they're 2 yrs old now, 1/2 Faverolles & 1/2 Orloff. I'd love to hatch a whole batch of these in the spring.

Ok, I'll stop for now!

Wow. All beautiful. I love cochin crosses. And those really lol like chubby ameraucanas! Perfection.

 

[Kassaundra]

@Kassaundra are you sure those aren't sand plums? Looks like it to me.

I thought they were, but they have sharp thorns.

 

[Kassaundra]

I thought they were, but they have sharp thorns.

Oh and I've never seen any fruit on them.

 

[ashtree]

Oh and I've never seen any fruit on them.

Sand plums have thorns, course they also have fruit. I'm stumped!

 

[Pokerface]

Here are pics of the mystery tree / shrub



Here is part of the thicket



Here are the spikey thorns, they are only on the older wood



Little out of focus, but you can see the color of the stem and how leaves form on it.




And a close up of the leaves themselves




Any ideas?

Wild plums. No fruit because of the late freeze/frost.

 

[ashtree]

Wild plums.  No fruit because of the late freeze/frost.

That's what I'm thinking but we got a ton of fruit this year.

 

[subhanalah]

Is anyone else enjoying the weather after that huge storm yesterday?
In other news...I need a new roof. :/

 

[Kyzmette]

Quote:
Depends on where you are and what elevation, I think. I'm up in the hills North of Tulsa and the last frost killed every one of my plum, peach and nectarine blooms.

 

[subhanalah]

Quote:
Depends on where you are and what elevation, I think. I'm up in the hills North of Tulsa and the last frost killed every one of my plum, peach and nectarine blooms.

plums fruited at my neighbor's house. The chickens really liked the ones that had fallen to the ground and split open.

 

[ashtree]

Quote: Thats right, now I remember my husband was out putting sheets and tarps on all the flowering trees in an attempt to get a harvest this year. And Im south of you in Norman. But your place sounds lovely. We were actually looking at properties in the Harrah/Newalla area. Lots of hills, at least enough for this Okie.